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Palestine and Palestinians: Iraq and,
187
; Muslim support and solidarity,
51

52
,
188
,
208

9
,
210

11
,
228
,
238
; partition,

54

55
; Qutb on,
107

Pasha, Nuqrashi,
4
,
6
Peaceful Families Project,
259
Pearl, Daniel,
250
,
289

Persian Gulf War (
1990

91
),
187

89

Pipes, Daniel,
182

84
,
187
,
218

20
,
226

Pollitt, Katha,
221

polygamy,
20
,
24
,
33
,
172
,
285

Poston, Larry,
178
,
320
(n
6
),
321
(n
12
)

Prager, Dennis,
243

prayer.
See
mosques, American; mosques,

Middle Eastern; religious observance professional organizations,
126
,
141
,
155

Progressive Muslim Union,
274
,
275
,

276

Progressive Muslims: On Justice, Gender, and Pluralism
(Safi, ed.),
275

al-Qaradawi, Yusef,
135

Qatar,
174

Quraishi, Asifa,
277

Quran: on adultery,
95
; Bakhtiar transla- tion,
266

68
,
269

71
,
304
; compulsion

frowned upon,
252
; on diversity,
235
; interpretation and scholarship,
98

99
,
165
,
266

72
,
334

35
(n
12
); Mattson’s

work on,
257
; Qutb on,
109
; and women’s rights,
266

67
,
269

72
,

285

Qutb, Amina,
109

Qutb, Hamida,
109
,
112

Qutb, Muhammad,
109

Qutb, Sayyid: African American Muslims influenced,
106
,
173
,
174
; and al-Ghazali,

73
; Islam as ideal system,
70

71
; life,
57
,

69
,
72
,
106

9
,
112
; militants influenced,

71

72
,
93
,
103

5
; on women,
108

9
,

292
; works,
69

72
,
105

8
,
112
,
162
(
see

also specific works
)

Radwan, Zainab,
89

90

Raja, Annia,
20
7

8

Ramadan, Said,
62
,
173
,
322
(n
46
) Ramadan, Tariq,
322
(n
46
) Ramadan War (
1973
),
77

78

Rashid, Fatima,
41
Rauf, Imam Feisal,
276
Raza, Raheel,
293

Razack, Sherene,
278

79

Reading Lolita in Tehran
(Nafisi),
14
,
196
,
225

religious observance (
see also
mosques, American; mosques, Middle Eastern): inner vs. outer observance,
128

29
,
298
; public prayer,
135
; in the U.S.,
169
,
297
; of veiled vs. unveiled women,
121

22
,
128

29
; woman-led mixed-gender

prayer,
196
,
274
,
293

rendition,
215
,
216

Return of the Pharaoh: Memoir in Nasir’s Prison
(al-Ghazali),
113

right-wing anti-Muslim sentiment,
217

21
,
225

26
,
243

44

“Roots of Muslim Rage” (Lewis),
181

Roy, Olivier,
99

100

Rushdie, Salman,
143
,
147

el-Saadawi, Nawal,
144

Sadat, Anwar: assassination,
93
,
103

4
,

116
,
179
; as Egypt’s president,
68

69
,

76

78
,
103
; Revolution of
1952
,
56

Saed, Khalida,
281

82
,
291

Safi, Omid,
275
,
277
,
287

al-Said, Amina,
84

85

Said, Edward,
181
,
217

Salafi movement,
174

Santorum, Rick,
221
,
226

Saudi Arabia: absence of veil symbolic of secularism,
43
; and the Afghani jihad,
177
; history of Wahhabi Islam,
94

96
;

Islamist groups supported,
85
,
94
,
97

98
,
173
,
174
,
188

89
(
see also
Muslim World League); and the Muslim Brotherhood,
57

58
,
97

98
,
161
; Nasser vs. Saudi leadership,
60

63
; and the Persian Gulf War,
188

89
; spread of Wahhabi Islam sought,
94
,
96

98
;

wealth, and the spread of Islamism,
94
,
98
,
10
1

2

el-Sayyedi, Lalla,
297

al-Sayyid Marsot, Afaf Lutfi,
29
,
42
,
58

scarf.
See
hijab; veil Schock, Jennifer,
206
Scott, Joan Wallach,
220

21

secularism: American Muslims,
197
,
296

300
; “secular” label and the veil,
43
,
47
,

87
,
103
,
129
; term applied to Nasser era,

102

3

Seiple, Robert,
187

September
11
terrorist attacks: American Muslims’ response,
201

4
,
214
,
249

50
;

anti-Muslim backlash,
13

14
,
193

94
,

197
,
199

201
,
204

5
,
213

22
,
233

37
,

243

44
,
326
(n
13
),
327
(n
46
); hijab after,

193
,
197
,
200
,
204

13
,
246
,
247

48
; sup-

port for Muslim Americans after,
200

206
,
202

3
,
205

6
,
241

45
; women’s

activism more visible after,
273

74

Shah, Umbreen,
255

Shaheen, Jack,
181

Shakir, Imam Zayid,
240

Shapiro, Judith,
219

Sha‘rawi, Huda,
35
,
110

Shariati, Ali,
105

Sharif, Azadeh Zainab,
207

Shawarbi, Dr. Mahmoud Youssef,
172

73

Shehadeh, Lamia,
108

9

Sheikh, Sa‘diyya,
277

Shelton, Hilary,
241
,
330
(n
14
) Siddiqui, Muzzamil H.,
200
,
237

38

Silvers, Laury,
271

72

Singer, Ella,
206

Siriyyah, Saleh,
81

82
,
139

40

Six-Day War (
1967
),
65

66

social justice (
see also
women’s activism; women’s rights): Islamism and,
148

49
,
153

54
,
235
,
282
,
287
,
294

96
; mi-

nority rights,
295
; MSA and,
251
,
292
;

Muslim Brotherhood and,
50

54
,
98
,

139
; Safi on,
275

Social Justice in Islam
(Qutb),
106

8

socialism,
58

59
,
66
,
68

69
,
76

Soviet Union,
58
,
60
,
177

79

Spivak, Gayatri,
23

24
,
222

Storrs, Ronald,
25

The Story of the Quran
(Mattson),
257

The Sublime Quran
(Bakhtiar transla- tion),
266

68
,
269

71
,
304

Suez Canal,
58

Sufism (
see also
Kabbani, Sheikh Hisham):
98
,
186

al-Sufur
(Unveiling) (newspaper),
39
,
40

Sukarno,
58

Suleiman, Hamid,
137

Summers, Lawrence,
234
Syeed, Sayyid M.,
201
Syria,
58
,
77

78
,
216
,
305

Tabligh-i Jamaat (organization),
167
,
168
,

172

Talhami, Ghada,
57
,
115
,
131

32
,
135

36
,

138

40
,
315
(n
12
)

Tarlo, Emma,
213

Tawfiq, Ahmad,
173

Taylor, Tayyibah,
265

66

terrorism (
see also
9
/
11
terrorist attacks; Abdel Rahman, Shaykh Omar; bin Laden, Osama; Islamic extremism; militant Islamist groups; al-Zawahiri, Ayman): in the
1990
s
,
4

5
,
142
,
144
,
179
;

Daniel Pearl murder,
250
; Egyptian crackdown,
149
; Ku Klux Klan,
242
; Muslim American condemnation of,
238
,
240
; and Muslim charities,
190
,
193

94
,
216
; in the U.S. (before
9
/
11
),
145
,
179

Tewfik Pasha (Khedive),
28

The Religion of Islam
(Qutb),
162

Tilmesani, Omar,
74

75
Tito, Josip Broz,
58
Toynbee, Polly,
14
,
195
,
223

The Trouble with Islam
(Manji) (
see also

Manji, Irshad):
14
,
196
,
225
,
288
,
289

91

Trudeau, Mina,
276
Truman, Harry S.,
107
Turabi, Hasan,
99

Turkey (
see also
Ottoman Empire):
27
,
44

45
,
196
,
305

6

United States (
see also
African American Muslims; Muslim American women; Muslim Americans;
and specific or- ganizations and individuals
): and the Afghan jihadists (“freedom fighters”),

177

81
; anti-Muslim attitudes,
13
,
181

85
,
199

201
,
204

7
,
213

22
,
233

37
,

243

44
; civil liberties,
185
,
193

94
,
215

17
,
242

44
; extremist recruitment

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